Writer. I do the Youtube thing, where I write and talk about games. Master of uncontrollable rambling. https://xitter.cf/t.co/OcDunqz6qp
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New video up. It examines Blizzard Entertainment's historical use of RNG and how it's been a part of their games forever, ranging from gameplay elements to monetization.
#DiabloImmortal #Diablo #Overwatch #BattleForAzeroth
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This goes without saying.
It would be absurd for someone to critique a boom or film they haven't read or seen. But outrage is so normalized in gaming that people are actively defending the idea of complaining about games they have literally never played. It's nonsense.
Jeff Kaplan's advice to people who complain about video games they refuse to play 🎮
"Shut the fuck up. No one cares"
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It's still early days for Hytale, but I will say this: This is an excellent, next-level foundation upon which to build an actual Minecraft successor.
The game feel is excellent, there's so many QOL features, and it looks great. Extremely impressed.
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Lot of grandstanding about being anti-AI only to come up with a BS excuse for why using a tool built on the back of plagiarism is okay.
Disappointing! Guess I'm not playing Divinity after all.
Larian CEO confirms the studio is using generative AI to "explore ideas, flesh out PowerPoint presentations, develop concept art and write placeholder text."
He says there won’t be any AI-generated content in Divinity — "everything is human actors; we’re writing everything ourselves."
(Source: bloomberg.com/news/newslette…)
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People just now sussing out the fact that Superman often contains allegories about immigration is so funny. How dense do you need to be to not pick up on that?
Next we can call X-Men woke for being about minority rights!
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Split Fiction is one of the best games I've played in recent memory. What a beautiful, heartfelt, earnest game with absolutely stellar, clever game design.
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@mtamaryland
I rode the 9:30 MARC train from Penn station to Union Station. Me and my enture group were threatened and chased by an assailant with a 14" chef knife who threatened to murder me and my friends. The assailant got away when we hurried out. Is there any update?
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People calling Witcher "woke" because Ciri is the protag when historically, Witcher has featured some of the most blatant objectification of women imaginable, is hilarious.
The series that brought us porn trading cards for every woman you slept with is now woke. Bahaha.
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Well, well, well. If it isn't manmade horrors beyond my comprehension.
There's a future where you and your graphics card decide what a game looks like, not the developers. Read the full story: trib.al/gQsdOCx
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It's really funny watching the culture war people come at Dragon Age for being "woke".
Dragon Age and BioWare at large have literally always had the same values. You've just accidentally become the villain and are now idealizing the older games because you remember them wrongly.
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It's so funny watching internet weirdos hold Dragon Age to a ridiculous standard. It's an extremely robust character creator, but because some things here and there can't be changed it sucks? Lmao.
How about 90% of RPGs where you can't change body shape... at all?
I am a 108 lb woman who sits for 15+ hours a day. I am not even in my "prime" here and you're telling me this is your 100% on the bum slider?
@dragonage explain how this is your "most inclusive" character creator yet, because i can't even make my skinny bum in the game.
I don't get it. Who was this character creator made for, because it certainly wasn't made for me. These sliders do NOTHING....
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This is actually like parody. You put the game on pause for years to build out Overwatch "2", and then the "sequel" is nothing more than an update and a new monetization scheme. Then, "test" to revert the game back to the one everybody liked. This is like a Hard Drive article.
6v6 Playtests are coming to #Overwatch2 🤯
Aaron Keller announced that they will conduct multiple events to test different 6v6 formats in the game. These tests, running for a few weeks, aim to gather feedback and help inform Overwatch's future.
If you're a Dragon Age fan who thinks Veilguard is "going woke", you need to actually play the previous games. Diversity and inclusion are in BioWare's (and Dragon Age's) DNA. Maybe you don't remember that because you played the game before you turned into the villain.
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3 Body Problem is a really solid adaptation. Some good changes, some eh, but overall it was definitely good to great
Auggie's actress really lets the show down, though. She's notably worse than the rest of the cast and it's a shame.
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